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*** Attorney General Ken Paxton just got another Republican primary challenger, but this time it is someone who has been close to him for years: state Rep. Matt Krause. The Fort Worth lawmaker and founding member of the House Freedom Caucus says he is running as the “faithful conservative fighter,” hoping to bring a similar conservative ideology to the position that Paxton is known for — but without the legal troubles that have dogged him for most of his time in office. Krause is the third serious primary opponent to announce against Paxton. The field already includes Land Commissioner George...

BREAKING: In a major blow to vaccine efforts, senior FDA leaders stepping down Two of the FDA’s most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, raising fresh questions about the Biden administration and the way that it’s sidelined the FDA. Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review and 32-year veteran of the agency, will leave at the end of October, and OVRR deputy director Phil Krause, who’s been at FDA for more than a decade, will leave in November. The news, first reported by BioCentury, is a massive blow to confidence in the agency’s...

A Vero Beach High School student running for senior class president was disqualified from the race and received detention after delivering an impromptu, 90-second satirical speech that his principal didn't find funny. JP Krause was running for senior class president back in April and was in class when his peers started chanting "speech, speech!" and his teacher gave him the opportunity to speak, Krause told NBC affiliate WPTV. While referring to his opponent in the election, Krause joked, "She will expand the government so you will not be able to do anything" and "she will raise taxes 80 percent."

Jonathan Tamari POSTED: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2014, 10:57 AM WASHINGTON -- President Obama will nominate Cheryl Anne Krause, a partner at the Philadelphia office of law firm Dechert LLP, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the third circuit, the White House said. Krause will be nominated today to a seat on the federal appeals court that serves Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands. "Cheryl Ann Krause has displayed exceptional dedication to the legal profession through her work and I am honored to nominate her," Obama said in a news release.

Oliver's photo still hangs at the Krause Funeral Homes, but he is no longer available to help grieving families. First a Krause family pet, Oliver ended up working most of his life as a therapy dog. "I remember one little boy, maybe about 8 years old, who wouldn't talk after a sibling died," funeral director Mark Krause said. "But he talked and talked to Oliver. "Oliver worked maybe a thousand funerals in his day, maybe more," he said. "What he did was really magical. People in their suits and dresses would get down on the floor to pet him." Oliver...

A municipal judge has found West Allis resident Brad Krause not guilty of disorderly conduct for openly carring a holstered firearm while planting trees in his yard, saying state law does not prohibit open carry and that state and local ordinances cannot trump the U.S. Constitution. Judge Paul Murphy also used his oral decision to chastise the state Legislature for not clarifying the legality of open carry - the carrying of legal firearms in plain public view - and he chided the state's attorney general for refusing to take a stand. West Allis police stormed Krause's property with their weapons...

One would think I would know better by now, but it still amazes me how worthless our public officials can sometimes be. No, this isn't a column about Roland Burris but about state Sen. Jim Holperin of Eagle River and attorney general J.B. Van Hollen. The goofiness of these three stooges is close enough, though, as recent controversies over the open carry of guns so well demonstrates in the case of the latter two. As this newspaper reports today, Brad Krause of West Allis has been found not guilty after being charged with disorderly conduct for wearing a legal, holstered...

For most of this decade, the most contentious gun issue in Wisconsin has been that of concealed carry, or the legal sanction to carry a firearm in public in a hidden manner, either on the body or in close proximity. But this year that affair may take a backseat to a rapidly intensifying debate about the legality of open carry, or the act of publicly carrying a firearm in plain view. Ostensibly, Wisconsin is an open-carry state, meaning there is no law against a law-abiding citizen openly carrying a legal firearm. Theoretically, at least, one could strap on a holster...

A West Allis municipal judge today ruled in favor of a local man arrested for disorderly conduct after a neighbor complained that he was carrying a gun while planting a tree. Judge Paul Murphy found Brad Krause not guilty of disorderly conduct in a case that drew to a hearing numerous gun rights advocates to witness what may be the first open carry gun case heard in a Wisconsin courtroom. For Krause, however, the significance of the case extended beyond gun rights: It was an infringement on civil liberties, he said after today's decision. "The reason people are upset about...

http://www.jpfo.org/articles-assd/wi-case-update.htm 2/11/09 It's less than a week until the Constitution gets another court hearing. To recap what happened, in August 2008 Brad Krause was arrested at gunpoint in West Allis, Wisconsin while planting trees in his yard. The reason: he lawfully possessed a holstered weapon. (Full story at: http://www.jpfo.org/alerts02/alert20081212b.htm ) His first hearing was December 16, where the story started to unfold under oath. The prosecution admitted into evidence a small semi-automatic handgun, positive retention holster, and self-defense ammunition, each item being the type of equipment police officers are known to use for their own protection, not the sort of...

Elmer C. Krause April 25, 1963 - April 23, 2004 Sgt. Elmer C. Krause, 40, of High Point, N.C., formerly of Vallejo, died April 23 during military service in Iraq. Born in Vallejo, Krause was a member of the Army Reserve's 724th Transportation Company, Bartonville, Ill. He was known by the nicknames "Elm," "Chipper" and "Petie." Survivors include his son, Jonathan G. Krause of North Carolina; sisters, Karen J. Krause of North Carolina, Ronda M. Sexton and Marcia L. McVicor of Vallejo, and Deborah L. Bunting of Fairfield; brother, Gerald J. "Jim" Krause of Fairfield; and longtime friends Katie...